Like Julia Childs, we love butter.

At the movies this past weekend, we saw Julia and Julie. Reminded me of how inadequate I am as a chef (though I can poach an egg!), and how much I would love to live in Paris as a rich wife.

Nora

This is my ceiling fan, upon which I rely heavily during the summer. :)

a collection of street lamps for you this morning...

Construction overhang

This is a perfume store south of 34th Street on Broadway.

more of the Love sculpture

LOVE sculpture on 6th Avenue -- I'm not sure if this is a store advertisement or just street art, but it makes a cool frame.

Walking in an August haze along 62nd or 61st street, on the Upper West Side between Columbus and Broadway.

Ugly Betty shoot around the flatiron district on August 25th, 2009 -- she was in a hot dog costume behind the blue umbrella.

on 6th Avenue in Midtown Manhattan.

Columbus Circle, New York

Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle, New York

View from 6th Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. (I was having fun with the macro focus.)

Construction wall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

Today is all about Roxy Paine's Maelstrom on the Met roof. This is the largest installation on the roof in the history of the Met. It's basically a stainless steel tree-like structure. Something to do with the contrast of urban life and nature. I think it looks beautiful in photographs -- especially those published with the New York Times review -- but I thought the idea was sort of unoriginal. In person, I was so overwhelmed by the August heat and haze with my friend Becky that I had a hard time focussing on the actual sculpture.

after the show ...

I am making up for last week with this flurry of postings...I've got so many in the queue that I'm just eager to get to.

North Plaza Construction, Lincoln Center

South Pacific!

becky

the Guggenheim...

Heading to the Frank Lloyd Wright exhibition at the Guggenheim.

this is a building on 7th Avenue in brooklyn. i've not yet figured out what those eyes are...

OKAY. I'm really failing to come up with new material now. Here's another photo from last summer. This effect of the glowing buildings is what happens when you take this kind of one-color only photo in a digital camera...

just a couple of Buddhist sculptural heads from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

I haven't been able to take any new photos this week so far, and so I'm a little behind with the posting. Sorry! I'll try to grab some good shots on my way home...perhaps I'll pick a different color to follow all the way to Brooklyn. Here's one from last summer's "walk home in blue." This was just south of Houston Street on Lafayette.

memorial on the side of a house in Williamsburg

Roman Catholic Church on Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint

in DUMBO

head in a doorway in DUMBO

the future is (still) unwritten in DUMBO